Device Monitoring Studio - Monitor, log and analyze data coming through PC ports and connections
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What's New in 7.05

Technical Features and Improvements

Multi-source Monitoring
New version supports joining monitored data from multiple sources of the same type into a single monitoring session. Now it is possible to monitor two or more serial ports, USB devices or network adapters. Device Monitoring Studio makes sure packets are correctly sorted and presented through a number of supported data visualizers. Data logging also supports multi-source sessions.
Remote Monitoring
DMS 7 supports monitoring USB and serial devices connected to remote servers. A single client may monitor several servers and a single server may be monitored by multiple clients. A separate server installation is provided. It includes a server access module, serial and USB monitoring modules, administration and management module and documentation. A server is managed using the MMC Snap-In or from Windows Scripting Host or PowerShell.
Windows 8 Support
DMS 7 officially supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
USB 3.0 Support
USB Monitor introduces support for USB 3.0 host controllers and devices.
Built-In and Custom Protocol Parsing
DMS 7 extends protocol parsing support for all monitoring modules: network, USB and serial. In addition, this version has new implementation of protocol parsing, which is more flexible and greatly improves performance.
New Data Processing Category
New processing category is introduced: data exporters. These components process monitored data in some way, but do not produce any visible output on the screen. Data recording module now belongs to this category. Other data exporters are Raw Exporter and Text Exporter. Both these exporters are capable of using built-in or custom protocol definitions to parse monitoring data before exporting.
Parallel Processing
New version of Device Monitoring Studio utilizes multiple cores for more responsive monitoring session operation. It allows the user to perform real-time monitoring of 1 Gb network transfer without packet loss and slowdowns while having such “heavy” processing like Capture Filter and Display Filter configured for a monitoring session.

User Interface Improvements

Devices Tool Window

New tool window that displays all devices the user can monitor in a single customizable view. For each supported device, its image, type and current state are displayed. The user may start, stop and configure monitoring sessions, view device properties, restart and rename devices.

This tool window allows you to create and configure Serial Bridges. Device Monitoring Studio also puts log files into corresponding places in this device tree.

Session Configuration Window

New Session Configuration window greatly simplifies session creation and modification. There is a list of configured sources at the top of the window. Below are optional device configuration settings, buttons to add more devices and remove existing ones.

Depending on the type and number of configured sources, a list of available processing modules is populated. It is divided into two main categories: visualizers and exporters.

Double-click on the processing module to add it to the current session. Some of modules support configuration. Customized processing modules may be saved for future use.

Finally, the user specifies a capture filter, a generic (protocol-based) conditional expression used to filter out specific monitored packets.

Sessions Tool Window
New tool window lists all currently running sessions and their properties. It allows you to close data visualizers, add new data processing modules, pause, resume or stop sessions. It also allows you to change data processing modules configuration conveniently. For example, for data recording, the current log file size is displayed. By clicking “End Stream”, the user ends the current stream and starts a new one.
Protocol-Based Data Visualizers
Structure View data visualizer for USB, Serial and Network with additional filtering (Display Filter) and ability to specify root protocol.
Automatic Layout Loading
DMS 7 automatically loads separate tool window and command layout when monitoring session is started. Thus, until a session is started, a layout, which simplifies device discovery and information retrieval is used. After the session is started, another layout is automatically loaded streamlining monitoring session usage. Both layouts may be customized by the user.
Global Configuration Switch
Device Monitoring Studio provides you with a global switch to turn it into Serial Monitor, USB Monitor or Network Monitor. This switch may be used in combo installations to temporary hide unneeded components.